The City of Badajoz will not reduce the IBI after the entry into force of the new Garbage Rate

The City of Badajoz will not reduce the Real Estate Tax (IBI), for the time being, because it claims that the government of Spain will transfer 9 million euros less than it announced last October. Ignacio Gragera, mayor of the country, has assured that "until it is assured of the economic sustainability of the municipality there will be no reduction".

Yecla’s neighbors face one of the biggest tax hikes of the last decades with the reform of the garbage rate, which could reach increases of up to 627% in the case of some businesses. The new tariffs, which still have to be approved in plenary, have generated a political war between the different municipal groups. The spokesman of the Popular Party, Sara Ortuño, has argued that the rise is the result of an imposition by the Government of Spain, c…